Blog & Featured Article’s
Welcome to our blog, where innovation meets insight. Dive into our collections, from expert interviews in ‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ to the latest Tascus product updates and educational resources designed to elevate manufacturing excellence. Explore, learn, and lead the change with us.
Our Recent Blog Posts:
May 2025 Manufacturing Update: Tascus + Project Highlights
At Metis Automation, we’re focused on two things: Evolving Tascus to stay ahead of how manufacturers work Supporting teams bringing smart, high-quality products to life In this manufacturing software update, we’re sharing the latest improvements to Tascus, and...
Tascus MES Update – May 2025 Release Highlights
We’ve just rolled out the latest Tascus MES software update (v23.8.0.12), packed with features that improve digital work instructions, simplify QA sign-offs, and strengthen production traceability. If your factory still relies on paper processes or struggles with...
Improving Manufacturing Efficiency with Digital Tools
Improving manufacturing efficiency is about more than just speeding up processes—it’s about achieving precision, consistency, and eliminating waste. Without a structured approach, inefficiencies can lead to increased costs, production delays, and quality issues. Many...
Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing
Manufacturing success isn’t about one-time fixes—it’s about building ongoing progress into your operations. Companies that embrace continuous improvement don’t just solve today’s challenges; they consistently raise the bar, staying competitive in an ever-changing...
Analysing Data to Improve Efficiency
Manufacturers are always searching for ways to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and optimise production. Yet, without the right tools to analyse manufacturing data, decisions often become reactive instead of proactive, leaving inefficiencies unresolved. The...
Quality Control in Manufacturing: 4 Steps to Improve Consistency
Quality control isn’t a nice-to-have in manufacturing — it’s essential. Without a structured approach to quality, defects, waste, and unhappy customers can quickly eat into your profits and reputation. Consistency in production is what builds trust with customers and...
Standardising Processes for Efficiency
In manufacturing, efficiency starts with consistency. Without a standardised process, businesses face inefficiencies, wasted resources, and quality risks that disrupt production and hinder growth. For many manufacturers, variability in workflows is a persistent...
4 Steps to Paperless Manufacturing
The transition to a paperless manufacturing process is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity for manufacturers who want to stay competitive. But digital transformation isn’t just about adding new technology. It’s about creating efficient, standardised, and scalable...
Manufacturing Digital Transformation
In today’s fast-paced manufacturing world, automotive and aerospace companies face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality products while also improving efficiency and scaling operations. Customers and regulators demand consistent quality, faster turnaround times,...
The Essential Manufacturing Shutdown Checklist
In manufacturing, shutdowns are inevitable. Whether it’s for routine maintenance, upgrades, or unexpected issues, a well-planned shutdown can make all the difference between a smooth restart and a prolonged downtime. For manufacturing engineers, having a comprehensive...
Education & Resources
May 2025 Manufacturing Update: Tascus + Project Highlights
At Metis Automation, we’re focused on two things: Evolving Tascus to stay ahead of how manufacturers work Supporting teams bringing smart, high-quality products to life In this manufacturing software update, we’re sharing the latest improvements to Tascus, and...
Tascus MES Update – May 2025 Release Highlights
We’ve just rolled out the latest Tascus MES software update (v23.8.0.12), packed with features that improve digital work instructions, simplify QA sign-offs, and strengthen production traceability. If your factory still relies on paper processes or struggles with...
Improving Manufacturing Efficiency with Digital Tools
Improving manufacturing efficiency is about more than just speeding up processes—it’s about achieving precision, consistency, and eliminating waste. Without a structured approach, inefficiencies can lead to increased costs, production delays, and quality issues. Many...
Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing
Manufacturing success isn’t about one-time fixes—it’s about building ongoing progress into your operations. Companies that embrace continuous improvement don’t just solve today’s challenges; they consistently raise the bar, staying competitive in an ever-changing...
Analysing Data to Improve Efficiency
Manufacturers are always searching for ways to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and optimise production. Yet, without the right tools to analyse manufacturing data, decisions often become reactive instead of proactive, leaving inefficiencies unresolved. The...
Quality Control in Manufacturing: 4 Steps to Improve Consistency
Quality control isn’t a nice-to-have in manufacturing — it’s essential. Without a structured approach to quality, defects, waste, and unhappy customers can quickly eat into your profits and reputation. Consistency in production is what builds trust with customers and...
Standardising Processes for Efficiency
In manufacturing, efficiency starts with consistency. Without a standardised process, businesses face inefficiencies, wasted resources, and quality risks that disrupt production and hinder growth. For many manufacturers, variability in workflows is a persistent...
4 Steps to Paperless Manufacturing
The transition to a paperless manufacturing process is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity for manufacturers who want to stay competitive. But digital transformation isn’t just about adding new technology. It’s about creating efficient, standardised, and scalable...
The Essential Manufacturing Shutdown Checklist
In manufacturing, shutdowns are inevitable. Whether it’s for routine maintenance, upgrades, or unexpected issues, a well-planned shutdown can make all the difference between a smooth restart and a prolonged downtime. For manufacturing engineers, having a comprehensive...
What is a Manufacturing Execution System?
In the evolving world of manufacturing, staying ahead of the competition requires more than just advanced machinery and skilled labour. It necessitates the adoption of sophisticated digital solutions that can streamline operations, enhance productivity, and ensure...
‘Manufacturers Make Strides’ interviews
Driving Innovation in Manufacturing with Anthony Walker
In this episode, I spoke with Anthony Walker, Strategic Manager at Liverpool John Moores University. With over 15 years of experience supporting SMEs, Anthony brings a practical and jargon-free approach to innovation, helping manufacturing leaders embrace change,...
Marketing in Manufacturing with Jennelle McGrath
In this episode, I spoke with Jennelle McGrath, CEO of Market Veep, a marketing agency known for its people-first approach and its success with manufacturers who are ready to modernise their sales and marketing. We dug into how manufacturing companies can get real...
Influencing Product Design in Manufacturing
In this episode, I spoke with Craig Higton, an aerospace engineer and manufacturing consultant with years of experience in process improvement and operations leadership. We talked about where manufacturers can have more of a say in how products are designed. Too...
Navigating the Future of EV Supply Chains with Bhavik Shah
Introduction Hey there, welcome to another episode of the Manufacturers Makes Strides podcast. I'm your host, Martin Griffiths. Joining us today is Bhavik Shah, an electric vehicle technology expert and the business growth manager at Unipart Automotive. Bhavik has...
How To Make Your Mark by Engaging Employees
There’s a difference between being a business owner, and being a true entrepreneur; the latter has a passion, a spark, a hunger to drive their legacy forward and make a lasting difference in their industry. Mark Whitten is one such individual. His commitment to not...
How Visualising Data is Improving Productivity
Just as there’s a storyteller behind every novel, every car on the road is made possible by the manufacturers of steel and aluminium. But not every manufacturer is created equal… Led by Arun Thandapani, Hirschvogel is a pioneering steel and aluminium part supplier...
Changing the Automobile Game with Multipurpose Modular Vans
The way we move never stays the same for very long. Humans have transitioned from foot to carriage to car, and now, P.J Tezza is escorting mankind into the next generation of mobility – ModVans. The result of 1000+ hours of work and an unrelenting refusal to take no...
The Future of E-Vehicles…Changing the Way You Charge
E-vehicles were once considered the future of mobility. Now, it’s a solid present-day reality for drivers around the world. Countless drivers are now hopping into electric or hybrid cars, trucks, and buses instead of their fossil-fuelled powered counterparts. However,...
America and Automation… And the People Behind Both
Automation is one of the hottest topics in the engineering and manufacturing industries. The speed, efficiency, and potential hurdles of automation are the points of discussion on every agenda – including ours today. We’re talking to the co-founder of an online...
A Sparkling Future For Automotive Sensor Manufacturing
Technology has made incredible progress in the past few years. It makes our lives faster, simpler, and easier than ever. Even the way we park and drive our cars has become effortless thanks to sensitive motion detectors and sensors. Unfortunately, there never seems to...
Product Updates
Tighten Multiple Fasteners in One Quick and Easy Step
With the aim of making it simpler to control the process of tightening multiple fasteners in one process, we’ve just published a Tascus update that enables you to tighten a batch of fasteners in one Tascus step. Configuring a Batch Tighten To tighten a batch of...
Adding Dynamic Data to Digital Work Instructions
We've just released a new feature to Tascus Manufacturing Execution System. It enables manufacturers to add dynamic data to digital work instructions. During the manufacturing process, you can eliminate the use of notepads to track measurements, readings and other...
Updated Production Views, Best Before Dates & ERP Integration
We've included a number of new features in Tascus 1.2.5.3 to enable integration with ERP systems, create serial numbers, updated Best Before Dates, and more clarity on the production status report. Best Before Dates Best Before Dates (BBD) can now be configured in...
Tools for the Manufacturing Daily Stand Up Meeting
Tools for Manufacturing Daily Stand Up MeetingsHaving regular and effective daily management is one of the key things to make sure that you hit your manufacturing goals and achieve your production target - weekly, monthly and quarterly. Within daily management, one...
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